Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-10-22
MISSING LINKS,

Germany has = population Of Is. S40.-
t"', against ~, 234.UUo by the census of
1sSg.
The chewing gum yearly used bv
certain family IF eight persons in Min
nesota costs $50.
The average cost per scholar of the
textbooks III the South Carolina schools
is -, Is wear.
sailors chapel is to be built in New
ork by money left by W. H. Wander
bllt for that purpose.
1t is said by competent authority
that men spend more money for hats
/ than women do for bonnets
An Arkansas man whitfield a bullet
out of plug OF tobacco and shot it
through the body of q wildcat
/ The homestake Mining Company. of
the Black Hills, d. T., IS the largest in
the world, and employs 3 6oO men.
Door-knocks of the old-fashoned kind
are once more appearing on the doors
OF fashionable New York residences
Several Alabama papers want the
state legislature 10 pass a law requiring
every man to produce a tax receipt be-
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the Presbytery Of Erie raised $1,000
more for missions in the past year than
III the one previous.
At Atlanta, Ca, has been formed an
association of young ladies who are
/ sworn TO do everything in their power
to abolish the ''parlor-beau fashion.
The editor of a Georgia paper says
liberty is always pictured a. 3 woman
because liberty to survive must be vigil
ant. and there is no bind side to a
woman.
The 600 French army cats whose duty
1t IS TO catch mice in the clothing
store-houses, are to have their rations
reduced, since they have become too fat
and iazy.
Parties will shortly engage in excava-
ting lands about White Plains, n. Y,
in search of treasures that are supposed
TO have been buried there wears and
years ago
the Indian women of the Lower
Brule agency have their weekly sewing
circle, interchange local news and tell
stories about absent sisters, just like
white women.
A citizen of Rockland. Me. has a
brcrWood pipe which he found embed
dea IN large mass of salt at the bot
tom of one of the water tanks of the
Old frIgate Sabine.
The Boston Ptiot thinks that the first
dealer in any staple commodity who
makes the announcement No English
goods sold here" will find himself over
whelmed by surprising run of trade.
Two lighthouse keepers on the North
Carolina coast quarreled about the
color of the sea and did not exchange
another word for three months, when
both were discharged by the govern
ment.
An artists idea of desolation-the
miners deserted cabins IN places near
Pittsburg where old mines or oil wells
have been abandoned, doors wide
open. window panes broken. and rooms
empty.
A Minnesota man SAYS that Indians
don't get drunk because they like
liquor, but because they think it an
honor. If this is true. the average red
man takes great pains to disguise his
dislike for tire-Water.
In Wyoming county, New York. the
fruit evaporatlng industry has com
petcly died out. For awhile much
money was made in the business, but sc
many people went into it that decline
was inevitable.
In 1880 there were 625 Indians in
Maine. of whom 3l2 We're males and
3I3 females. Every able-bodied Indian
=. 4 II,
dian who is not able bodied has two
says the Lewiston Jot4rnaL
The fiber of the pita plants, which
grow in great abundance IN Honduras
is used by the natives for various pur
poses. Ii is converted into thread fol
sewing boots and shoes, and into nets
fshlines and cordage. The finest and
most costly hammocks are also made ,o
it. Small quantities which have beer
sent 10 th, market have been manu-
factured into handkerchicfs, laces, rib
bons. false hair and wigs.
While a jeweler was chatting to 4,
New York reporter colored lady. at
tired in the latest devices of fashion
purchased brilliant and planked dowl
$40 without murmur. Some o
our best customer, are colored people,
said the jeweIer. when they hav,
money they wear good clothes an'
good jewelry. Diamond earrings Ar
set of better ON 4 dark background
and the colorcd ladir, understand Il
The Calljcoon N. " Echo has tn
Youngest composjtor ON record sh
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